According to a weekly report by City Manager Karen Brust, the city’s Development Advisory Board was presented with preliminary plans for a new 130- to 150-room hotel, along with 5,000 to 10,000 square feet of meeting space, restaurant and retail space, and 17 to 20 single-family homes on three acres between Camino Capistrano and Del Obispo Street.

Joshua Host, a representative of the project’s developer, Irvine-based Urban Village Development, said the plans are very preliminary.

“The project is currently in the conceptual design phase, gathering feedback from the community to design a project that truly benefits the downtown while maintaining the historical integrity of such a majestic place,” the developer’s website says.

According to the city manager’s report, the development would be at 31878 Camino Capistrano, within the Historic Town Center Master Plan area. The downtown master plan was approved in April, covering 150 acres in the heart of the city. It encompasses Mission San Juan Capistrano, the 31-acre downtown core and commercial areas south of Del Obispo Street and north to Trabuco Creek. The goal is a mixed-use environment with improved traffic circulation while maintaining the area’s historic character.

Host said Urban Village is mostly looking for feedback from the city and the community at this point and doesn’t have much in specific plans.

City officials were not immediately available for comment.

“The project represents the first major private development proposal within the ‘TC’ (Town Center) Zone District ,” the city manager’s report said.

A hotel plan that is further along is the 124-room Plaza Banderas, approved in 2010. It will feature retail space and a restaurant on land adjacent to Ortega Highway next to the mission.

That hotel likely will begin development once the upcoming I-5/Ortega Highway interchange reconstruction project wraps up in spring 2015. The interchange project will affect traffic flow in the downtown area and would have limited work on Plaza Banderas had the hotel development started now.

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